GB Group Gets UK Government Energy Data Contract

11th Jun 2010 07:10

LONDON (Dow Jones)--GB Group PLC (GBG.LN), an Identity Management business, said Friday it has been awarded a contract by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to match a number of different data sets to associate energy consumption and property characteristics of domestic and non-domestic property consolidating data on the energy consumption and carbon emissions of households and commercial properties across England and Wales. -Shares closed Thursday at 26.0 pence. -By Iain Packham, Dow Jones Newswires; 44-20-7842-9269; [email protected] (END) Dow Jones Newswires June 11, 2010 02:10 ET (06:10 GMT)